At 10:43 14/06/2009 +0800, Xiang Liu wrote:
I am curious to see that the word "classification" in the last line is recognized as a misspelling. (see the attachment)
As you have it, the word is not spelled using separate letters in the way the spelling dictionary expects: the "fi" in the middle of your word is a ligature.
In conventional printers' fonts, some letters do not sit well together. To get around this problem, such fonts were provided with separate "ligatures" - groups of letters designed and available as a single glyph. Common examples are fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature . Because normal computer keyboards do not have keys for such ligatures, computer fonts were generally designed to avoid the need for ligatures, but they are often found in modern, extended fonts. A complication in your case is that, in the Arial font you have used, the "fi" ligature is little different in appearance from the separate characters.
In your case, either you have inserted the "fi" ligature or you have copied the material from someone else who has, or else some software - possibly an intelligent word processor - has made the substitution for you. You can see that you have a ligature here in various ways. A simple one is to step the cursor through the word using the arrow keys on your keyboard, when you will see that it jumps over the "fi" in one step: it is one character, not two. Also try changing the font.
If you use the spelling checker to correct the word, it will appear to do little but will actually replace the ligature with the separate letters.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
